Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
(Pierce caught that pass in the featured image, by the way. That felt like a fitting way to begin a propaganda piece about him.) Alec Pierce kicked down the door of the 2024 fantasy football season when he caught the 60-yard touchdown heard ’round the world from Anthony Richardson in Week 1. I broke down […]
September 19, 2024
We should consider ourselves lucky that Darnell Mooney—still only 26 years old and on just his second NFL team—had such a paltry line (1-15-0) against the Steelers in Week 1. It made it so that his impressive showing of three receptions for 88 yards and a touchdown last week against the Eagles appeared as if […]
September 18, 2024
It hasn’t exactly been the pyrotechnic start to his rookie campaign for which Caleb Williams and all Chicago Bears fans had been hoping. The Bears are 1-1 through two weeks, so it’s not all bad—especially big-picture. But anyone who watched the Bears’ loss to the Texans on Sunday Night Football—so, like, everyone—has some bonafide game […]
September 18, 2024
As a fan of the first Reeves Batman film, and, more importantly, a die-hard Colin Farrell fan, I couldn’t be more excited for tomorrow’s release of HBO’s spinoff series The Penguin. And it’s not because I’m hungry for more stories of spandex-clad paladins blinking through the multiverse just to bludgeon narrative integrity. Like so much […]
September 18, 2024
Will I get ridiculed for this? Maybe. But, for as long as I’ve played fantasy football, I’ve believed that the D/ST position (for leagues that include it) can be a swing slot on your roster. But not if you drafted, like, the San Francisco 49ers D/ST in the eleventh round. That’s just spendthrift behavior. And, […]
September 17, 2024
After Week 2’s stunning Falcons comeback over the Eagles on Monday Night Football, Joe Mixon and Dameon Pierce owners got some good news before their heads hit their pillows. According to Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston, neither Mixon’s ankle injury nor Pierce’s hamstring strain is considered whatsoever serious. This is fantastic news for not […]
September 17, 2024
Short answer: maybe! However, word from Jefferson and HC Kevin O’Connell is that the injury appears, at least for now, to be quite minor. There have been no official practice reports yet, though, so nothing is whatsoever official. In the third quarter of Sunday’s tilt against the 49ers, Jefferson was blocking for Ty Chandler on […]
September 16, 2024
First of all, my most emphatic condolences if you’re a season-long Cooper Kupp owner. We’ve all seen the walking boot tweet. We all were banking on his ankles being healthier than they have been in three years, since his triple-crown-winning 2021 season. But, here we are. I wrote about Jordan Whittington in my How to […]
September 16, 2024
What’s Monday good for, if not for a heaping plate of crow set in front of you by the football gods. And you can’t leave the table until you’ve licked your plate clean. Here’s what I said about Marvin Harrison, Jr. last week in my NFL Rookie of the Year Odds Tracker for Week 2 […]
September 16, 2024
You can’t. But you must. At least that’s how it feels. Especially with the walking boot tweet, and watching the way the Cardinals’ front seven obliterated the Rams’ patchwork, wet-paper-bag offensive line. Many Cooper Kupp owners expected a fully-healthy sixty minutes yesterday, with some absurd percentage of the Rams’ target share, and somewhere in the […]
September 16, 2024
UPDATE 9/16 12:43p.m. EST: In his press conference with the media on Monday, KOC offered the following update on Jefferson, according to the team’s official website: “Justin did come in today feeling pretty good, which was a positive based upon the initial quad contusion that happened on that run play,” head coach Kevin O’Connell said […]
September 15, 2024